Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks

• Main Author: Jaume Navarro (ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Massimiliano Badino (ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edition Open Access 2013
• Series: Studies 2: Max Planck Research Library in the History and Development of Knowledge
• Subjects: physics textbooks; history of pedagogy; history of quantum physics; MPRL; Edition Open Access; history of science; science textbooks
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Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted. The essays in this volum...